Reminder: Terry Francona Once Said “Manny Ramirez is the worst human being I’ve ever met.”
Baseball, Media Gossip/Musings February 22nd. 2012, 2:00pm
Really nice dismemberment of Manny Ramirez by Tyler Kepner of the Times:
Fifty games? What happened to 100? When a fugitive skips town, shouldn’t the same punishment apply if he tries to come back? Not in the case of Ramirez. He was reinstated last December when the union persuaded Major League Baseball to reduce his sentence because Ramirez had missed almost all of 2011.
Ramirez, who will be 40 by the time he can play again, is a ghostly reminder of a tainted era with a long history of roguish behavior. Terry Francona, his nice-guy manager in Boston, once said this to Peter Gammons, “Manny Ramirez is the worst human being I’ve ever met.”
The revealing quote from Francona about Ramirez was told to Peter Gammons in 2008. [H/T CJ in the comments section]
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February 22nd, 2012 at 2:03 PM
I got a H/T!!!!!!
February 22nd, 2012 at 2:03 PM
Maybe he just meant “at playing left field”.
February 22nd, 2012 at 2:05 PM
Also: Francona will be on Outside the Lines at 3 today and will be asked about Oakland signing Manny. Should be good.
February 22nd, 2012 at 2:05 PM
/wank
//wank
///wank
February 22nd, 2012 at 2:06 PM
Al Davis still haunts the Oakland sports world.
February 22nd, 2012 at 2:06 PM
Ctrl P that and put it on your wall CJ.
In no way am I shocked someone would say that about Manny.
February 22nd, 2012 at 2:07 PM
USA today once said, “more posts or we’re reducing your salaries.”
February 22nd, 2012 at 2:08 PM
Nice post, Kepner.
February 22nd, 2012 at 2:08 PM
We’re still talking about a baseball team, right?
February 22nd, 2012 at 2:10 PM
/said by nobody
February 22nd, 2012 at 2:11 PM
It’s Gannet, so more likely “More posts, or you’re fired”
February 22nd, 2012 at 2:12 PM
Francona must not know a lot of people.
February 22nd, 2012 at 2:12 PM
Scorecard Research popups, eh?
February 22nd, 2012 at 2:12 PM
Jesus. The fired ESPN headline writer fired off a twitlonger talking about how he brings homeless people back to life and gives all his money to charity and is just plain awesome and people should love him. I didnt even give a shit about him, but now I hate him.
February 22nd, 2012 at 2:12 PM
“Roguish behavior.” He wrote that sentence in a tuxedo.
February 22nd, 2012 at 2:14 PM
I’ve been gone for like 10 days, did everybody get banned in that time?
February 22nd, 2012 at 2:14 PM
MLBPA can ask and MLB can kindly tell them to kick rocks.
February 22nd, 2012 at 2:14 PM
When filling out an editorial staff I always go for the guy who carries a rez spell.
February 22nd, 2012 at 2:16 PM
I’m all for a Zim Bear post but there’s an awesome golf tournament going on right now.
February 22nd, 2012 at 2:17 PM
I’m all for a Zim Bear post but there’s an awesome golf tournament going on right now.
Go-lf?
/JMac
February 22nd, 2012 at 2:17 PM
Helps if you drop a link in…
February 22nd, 2012 at 2:18 PM
Golf season starts after the tourney is over. Frolf season is alive and kicking, however.
February 22nd, 2012 at 2:18 PM
Unless Tiger Woods is banging skanks from the rough or there is some WAG involved, or some sort of on-course violence, we ain’t getting no golf posts. I’m resigned to it.
February 22nd, 2012 at 2:19 PM
I’ll say it again — Slow Down.
February 22nd, 2012 at 2:19 PM
Helps if you drop a link in…
it’s been retweeted 10 times on my timeline already. And it’s hopelessly self serving. To hear this guy tell it, he’s never had to wipe his ass more than once per BM.
February 22nd, 2012 at 2:19 PM
Or you can wait until SportsCenter when ESPN makes his comments the top story. Or on the website. Or whatever.
/never forget, ESPN is the story
February 22nd, 2012 at 2:21 PM
Pretty scathing indictment when you consider he lived in Boston for 8 years.
February 22nd, 2012 at 2:22 PM
Sooooooooooooooooooo. Gonna be a post on this?
February 22nd, 2012 at 2:22 PM
Some guy named Jim Furyk is sporting a Johnnie Walker black golf bag. I didn’t know caddie’s got sponsors.
February 22nd, 2012 at 2:22 PM
Golf season starts after the tourney is over. Frolf season is alive and kicking, however.
I went through a pretty hardcore frolfing stage at OSU. My friends and I would go atleast 2x a week, but some of them were so nerdy good at it — it became frustrating. Then we would get Baha Fresh, then we would go back and get drunk. God damn, I miss college.
February 22nd, 2012 at 2:22 PM
Guess I’ll have to check the Twitter then. Bound to be in my timeline somewhere
February 22nd, 2012 at 2:22 PM
he’s SC?
oh, wait, you said “had to” to, not “chose to”.
February 22nd, 2012 at 2:22 PM
Fired ESPN dude: http://www.twitlonger.com/show/g2gn26
February 22nd, 2012 at 2:22 PM
And that Pedroia’s brother is a child molester, and there’s a good chance they have met.
February 22nd, 2012 at 2:23 PM
I thought they just suspended that editor. It’s a full out firing now? Also, anyone who references a story about adopting a homeless “friend” with Alzheimer’s to prove that he’s a nice guy is most likely a giant, self-centered asshole in real life. He might as well tell some story from his AP Biology class.
February 22nd, 2012 at 2:23 PM
Sooooooooooooooooooo. Gonna be a post on this?
too sportsy, and current. Got anything from 2006?
February 22nd, 2012 at 2:24 PM
Bretos the announcer got suspended, this cat got straight fired over the weekend.
February 22nd, 2012 at 2:24 PM
I saw Tom Martinez died, no Duckworth meant or implied.
February 22nd, 2012 at 2:24 PM
he’s SC?
oh, wait, you said “had to” to, not “chose to”.
I bet the floor of his shower is tinted brown.
February 22nd, 2012 at 2:25 PM
this cat got straight fired over the weekend.
he immediately called that homeless guy to call in the favor, too.
February 22nd, 2012 at 2:25 PM
Let me stop you right there.
February 22nd, 2012 at 2:25 PM
I’ve been gone for like 10 days, did everybody get banned in that time?
we’ve just been waiting for the straw that stirs the drink….
you woulda loved the movie post from the other day…500-some comments
February 22nd, 2012 at 2:25 PM
What’s frolf?
February 22nd, 2012 at 2:26 PM
I saw Tom Martinez died, no Duckworth meant or implied.
I’m a big fan of the implied Duckworth
February 22nd, 2012 at 2:27 PM
What’s frolf?
it’s when your decide to pluck your taint hairs one by one instead of using the razor, and all the follicles end up inside out for a few days. They make an ointment, but it doesn’t help.
February 22nd, 2012 at 2:27 PM
I think it’s the same thing as frottage?
February 22nd, 2012 at 2:27 PM
too sportsy, and current. Got anything from 200
Michigan. Ohio State. Game of the century!!
/tyduffy
February 22nd, 2012 at 2:29 PM
let me get all chivalrous here
frolf is frisbee golf, sg. want a backrub baby?
/glares at smartass commenters
February 22nd, 2012 at 2:30 PM
Fired ESPN dude: http://www.twitlonger.com/show/g2gn26
Lawdy. I didn’t think he should have got fired, but after reading that it is apparent ESPN was just looking for a reason to get rid of him and I can’t blame them for that.
Frolf is Disc Golf. I used to play all the time. Cheap, fun, and not too hard to do whilst stoned.
February 22nd, 2012 at 2:30 PM
Sad. Even Tom Brady couldnt get him a kidney.
February 22nd, 2012 at 2:30 PM
What’s frolf?
Frolf is another term for Frsibee Golf or Disc Golf. Basically you go to a park and walk around and throw frisbees and metal holes. Sounds ridiculous — it is. It’s fun though and usually free.
February 22nd, 2012 at 2:30 PM
I need Luke Donald to win the Match Play, if any of you have powers like that.
February 22nd, 2012 at 2:31 PM
Golf for hairy people.
February 22nd, 2012 at 2:31 PM
Disc Golf – the bigger the bag of discs, the bigger the stash of drugs.
February 22nd, 2012 at 2:31 PM
Well I was thinking more along the lines of in relation to TBL’s post on the Angels trying to go after the Latino market.
February 22nd, 2012 at 2:32 PM
Other terrible human beings – Barry Bonds, Tiger Woods, Ty Cobb, Kobe Bryant…all of them really good at their craft. Awesome athletes = assholes.
February 22nd, 2012 at 2:32 PM
The official sport of the Summer of George.
/frisbee golf
February 22nd, 2012 at 2:32 PM
Lawdy. I didn’t think he should have got fired, but after reading that it is apparent ESPN was just looking for a reason to get rid of him and I can’t blame them for that.
Agree, although I think ESPN did him a favor. He was sitting in a cubicle at 2:00AM on a Saturday and his job was to come up with headlines that will appeal to the dumbasses that visit ESPN.com every 10 minutes.
February 22nd, 2012 at 2:33 PM
Disc Golf – the bigger the bag of discs, the bigger the stash of drugs.
Ritty knows.
February 22nd, 2012 at 2:33 PM
The sale of organs needs to be legalized.
February 22nd, 2012 at 2:34 PM
I once played disc golf with a buddy of mine in Nashville. The course was cut out of the side of a hill on the outside of town. There was, I kid you not, a mountain man wearing overalls with two blood hounds alongside him while he smoked some grass. It was as if the Committee for Tennessee Stereotypes placed him there and I refused to believe he wasn’t a prop until he spoke to me in some sort of hillbilly language I wasn’t familiar with. Good times.
February 22nd, 2012 at 2:35 PM
The sale of organs needs to be legalized.
That would just be a shitshow. You’d have a bunch of drug addicts selling their kidneys for money.
February 22nd, 2012 at 2:36 PM
Their kidneys? Fuck that. I’m harvesting sober peoples’ organs and selling them to get a better price.
February 22nd, 2012 at 2:36 PM
Ultimate frisbee = official sport of stoners
/was member of team during college
//draw your own conclusions…
February 22nd, 2012 at 2:37 PM
Committee for Tennessee Stereotypes
I like it.
February 22nd, 2012 at 2:37 PM
Yup. Disc Golf was the way that preppy Ritty was able to bond with his String Cheese Incident loving friends in high school, early college. There were a couple of “pros”out at the park where the disc golf course was located. They had a big bag of discs and coincidentally were able to play disc golf all day, stoned out of their minds. I still have a disc somewhere with a phone number to call in case the disc was found. Nice try, hippie.
February 22nd, 2012 at 2:38 PM
I think that you’re legally required to be high while playing frisbee golf, so this is understandable.
February 22nd, 2012 at 2:39 PM
I prefer to jump to my conclusions on my handy-dandy mat thank you very much.
February 22nd, 2012 at 2:40 PM
Their kidneys? Fuck that. I’m harvesting sober peoples’ organs and selling them to get a better price.
also, there’s that. I’d be afraid I’d wake up in a bathtub full of ice with moleman standing over me telling me not to move for 8 hours and that he left a disposable cell phone on the counter for me to call 911.
February 22nd, 2012 at 2:40 PM
Ritty -
Unfortunately, one of the places we played in KC was also known as a place for gay men to pick each other up. That never was a problem for us out playing disc golf, but when someone would ask what I did on some day and I’d say, “Went out to Rosedale Park.” I’d have to immediately add, “to play disc golf. honest!” I felt like Coop before I even knew Coop.
February 22nd, 2012 at 2:40 PM
There were a couple of “pros”out at the park where the disc golf course was located. They had a big bag of discs and coincidentally were able to play disc golf all day
me and a college friend went to play whirlyball and some dweebs came in with their own whatever you call those things you throw and catch with, in sleeves. fuckers were good too
February 22nd, 2012 at 2:41 PM
You must have gone to the Two Rivers Park one? I’ve run around there a bunch, and it’s definitely right on the side of a hill. Next to the Wave Pool where up-to-no-good teenagers hang out being shady all summer.
February 22nd, 2012 at 2:41 PM
“say, boy, you throw them there frolf deesks hot enuf to take the hair off a wooden layg.”
February 22nd, 2012 at 2:41 PM
hands?
February 22nd, 2012 at 2:43 PM
It was as if the Committee for Tennessee Stereotypes placed him there and I refused to believe he wasn’t a prop until he spoke to me in some sort of hillbilly language I wasn’t familiar with.
was he sitting in a rocking chair too?
February 22nd, 2012 at 2:44 PM
Bought at Cracker Barrel, I assume.
February 22nd, 2012 at 2:44 PM
wtf is that? Never heard of such a game, ever.
February 22nd, 2012 at 2:44 PM
“say, boy, you
throw them there frolf deesks hot enuf to take the hair off a wooden layg.”sure got a purty mouf…/fixed
February 22nd, 2012 at 2:44 PM
me and a college friend went to play whirlyball and some dweebs came in with their own whatever you call those things you throw and catch with, in sleeves. fuckers were good too
What the hell are you blabbering about? You lost me at whirlyball.
February 22nd, 2012 at 2:46 PM
That’s hilarious. I have a similar story about playing home run derby at a Little League field we knew nothing about in Atlanta. A couple of swings in, we had an audience of dudes sitting in their cars, alone, windows down, watching me blast 325 ft. bombs. Few minutes later a police cruiser rolls up, cop gets out, and came just short of doing that eyeball to eyeball motion with his index and middle finger. Creepy times.
February 22nd, 2012 at 2:47 PM
I think whirly ball is when you drive a go-kart and have jai-lai like scooper/thrower things and toss a ball around
February 22nd, 2012 at 2:47 PM
What the fuck is whirlyball?
February 22nd, 2012 at 2:47 PM
whirlyball
wtf is that? Never heard of such a game, ever.
AT my school it was a game that all the sorority girls liked to do for date dashes with fraternities. I think the primary reason was that it’s not difficult to play while you are a full of Boone’s Farm and Franzia.
February 22nd, 2012 at 2:47 PM
also, there’s that. I’d be afraid I’d wake up in a bathtub full of ice with moleman standing over me telling me not to move for 8 hours and that he left a disposable cell phone on the counter for me to call 911.
in the land of the no-kidneyed, the one-kidney man is king
February 22nd, 2012 at 2:48 PM
How the hell did you know? That’s exactly what he said…wait, a second? You have a long beard?
Probably. It was way, way back in about 2001-2002.
February 22nd, 2012 at 2:48 PM
I think whirly ball is when you drive a go-kart and have jai-lai like scooper/thrower things and toss a ball around
and drink beer. the go-karts are actually bumper cars. very fun and frustrating til you get the hang
February 22nd, 2012 at 2:49 PM
http://www.whirlyball.com/home/index.php
February 22nd, 2012 at 2:49 PM
Boone’s Farm and Franzia.
*Shudder*. Bad, bad memories.
February 22nd, 2012 at 2:50 PM
The worst person I’ve ever met was the really hot girl who lived on my floor freshman year. She was a hard 9. Turns out she stole her friends credit cards and ran up tabs on it to shop, last I heard she was escorting in Chicago.
February 22nd, 2012 at 2:50 PM
in the land of the no-kidneyed, the one-kidney man is king
Dewey Crowe must be a god since he has 4.
February 22nd, 2012 at 2:51 PM
where up-to-no-good teenagers hang out being shady all summer.
the third day of my summer vacation i went downtown, to look for a job. then i hung out in front of the drugstore
(repeat a few times)
the seventh day of my summer vacation i went downtown. to look for a job. then i found a job. keeping people from hanging out in front of the drugstore
February 22nd, 2012 at 2:51 PM
The worst person I’ve ever met was the really hot girl who lived on my floor freshman year. She was a hard 9. Turns out she stole her friends credit cards and ran up tabs on it to shop, last I heard she was escorting in Chicago.
not where I thought that story was going. thought for sure you were going to say she gave you the herp.
February 22nd, 2012 at 2:51 PM
what do you expect from a guy who can’t throw the ball and catch it himself?
/gisele’d
February 22nd, 2012 at 2:51 PM
Ok so that actually looks fun, especially when the first words the video shows is DRINK. A little bummed we never had anything like that out here.
February 22nd, 2012 at 2:52 PM
blue boone’s is the bomb.
February 22nd, 2012 at 2:52 PM
The worst person I’ve ever met was the really hot girl who lived on my floor freshman year. She was a hard 9. Turns out she stole her friends credit cards and ran up tabs on it to shop, last I heard she was escorting in Chicago.
not where I thought that story was going. thought for sure you were going to say she gave you the herp.
no, that was a different uglier chick
February 22nd, 2012 at 2:54 PM
whatever you call those things you throw and catch with
hands?
el o el
February 22nd, 2012 at 2:54 PM
Extremely nsfw but that reminds me of the first time I ever came across the dangers of digital pictures in the age of the Internet – Google Auburn Boone’s Farm Girl, safesearch off. Yeah, she had to transfer.
February 22nd, 2012 at 2:54 PM
Tampa Bo?! That you?
February 22nd, 2012 at 2:54 PM
Boone’s Farm and Franzia.
*Shudder*. Bad, bad memories.
I have worse memories of the greek punch we used to make. Ever trash can sized batch had two handles of vodka (or was it three?), a handle of Everclear, and a six pack of Keystone Light. And you always use Countrytime lemonade mix. If I ever ran out of beer and started drinking the punch instead, I knew I was in for a wicked hangover the next day.
February 22nd, 2012 at 2:55 PM
no long beard…shaved that sucker off a few years ago. too hot down here in FL for that.
February 22nd, 2012 at 2:56 PM
A little bummed we never had anything like that out here.
TBL meetup at whirlyball!!
February 22nd, 2012 at 2:56 PM
Google Auburn Boone’s Farm Girl, safesearch off. Yeah, she had to transfer.
Oh my. She certainly liked her Boone’s Farm.
February 22nd, 2012 at 2:56 PM
To the smartphone!!!
February 22nd, 2012 at 2:57 PM
I thought whirlyball was just extreme whiffle ball.
February 22nd, 2012 at 2:59 PM
ritty, I finally went at joined up at a golf course at lunch today. I feel like a kid at a candy store. doesn’t help that it is 70* and sunny today and I can’t leave work.
February 22nd, 2012 at 3:00 PM
hahaha my thoughts exactly.
February 22nd, 2012 at 3:00 PM
I remember when we used to cannonball the boone’s farm by the case when I was a young buck.
February 22nd, 2012 at 3:00 PM
Too hot here, too, the past few years. You’ll find out soon enough.
/team shaved the winter beard last week
I was talking to my wife about the Pittsburgh Marathon and why I love the city. Ended up reminiscing to game 7 of the 2004 ALCS, funneling corn-based beer that was $6/case with the only other Sox fan I knew in school.
February 22nd, 2012 at 3:01 PM
I don’t think that’s the recommended way to drink it, though.
February 22nd, 2012 at 3:01 PM
It’s high up on the autofill… must be good.
/takes phone to the hallway
February 22nd, 2012 at 3:02 PM
I don’t think that’s the recommended way to drink it, though.
Maybe she was leaving a surprise for her boyfriend/guy who got her drunk later.
February 22nd, 2012 at 3:03 PM
Awesome man, congrats. Might I suggest a “club day.” Go out there, have breakfast, play a morning round, eat lunch, take a nap, play an afternoon round, hit the steam room, have dinner, get drunk, stay in the 19th hole until they kick you out.
February 22nd, 2012 at 3:03 PM
Wow. Not her best idea.
February 22nd, 2012 at 3:04 PM
Google Auburn Boone’s Farm Girl, safesearch off. Yeah, she had to transfer.
Oh My.
/done in Dick Enberg’s voice
February 22nd, 2012 at 3:06 PM
Yeah, that was back when naked camera pics were still uncommon (2002 or so). It spread like wildfire. Nowadays in college, I imagine people would be like “that’s it?”
February 22nd, 2012 at 3:06 PM
I don’t think that’s the recommended way to drink it, though.
Has anyone ever heard of women doing coke through their pussy? I saw an episode of Law and Order CI once, a murder was committed by mixing ricin in this chick’s coke. She would put in on her chair and absorb it through her pussy whilst cybersexing. Weird episode.
February 22nd, 2012 at 3:07 PM
I remember when we used to cannonball the boone’s farm by the case when I was a young buck.
maddog 20-20
everclear was so unique. a buddy of mine in hs had a brother who went to SIU and he would bring it back. couldn;t get it near chicago i guess. anyway, i remmeber doing shots and going snowmobiling, falling off and laughing
that shit was so extreme, you needed to mix. we would do capfuls straight, and because you had to slurp it out, it was a challenge to not ralph it up.
February 22nd, 2012 at 3:08 PM
She would put in on her chair and absorb it through her pussy whilst cybersexing. Weird episode.
AHH… the FCC deemed this episode fit for for network television, and yet, janet jackson shows a nipple and they lose their shit.
February 22nd, 2012 at 3:31 PM
that sounds like something I will have to try. the beauty of the place I joined is that they don’t sell any liquor, so it’s a free-for all as far as bringing your own, and it’s not too far from work/home. they will be pretty tired of me up there after a while, I’m going to wear it out. they have a 90 yard short game area that I am pumped about.